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Rom. 7:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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Matt. 19:20• ²⁰The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? (Matt. 19:20)

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Luke 10:25‑29• ²⁵And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?
²⁶He said unto him, What is written in the law? how readest thou?
²⁷And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself.
²⁸And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.
²⁹But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor? (Luke 10:25‑29)

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Luke 15:29• ²⁹And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends: (Luke 15:29)

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Luke 18:9‑12,21• ⁹And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
¹⁰Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
¹¹The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
¹²I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
²¹And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up. (Luke 18:9‑12,21)

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Phil. 3:5‑6• ⁵Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
⁶Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. (Phil. 3:5‑6)

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Matt. 5:21‑26• ²¹Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
²²But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
²³Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;
²⁴Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
²⁵Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
²⁶Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing. (Matt. 5:21‑26)

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Matt. 15:4‑6• ⁴For God commanded, saying, Honor thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
⁵But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
⁶And honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. (Matt. 15:4‑6)

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Mark 7:8‑13• ⁸For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
⁹And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
¹⁰For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
¹¹But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
¹²And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
¹³Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. (Mark 7:8‑13)

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Rom. 3:19‑20• ¹⁹Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
²⁰Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:19‑20)

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Rom. 10:5• ⁵For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them. (Rom. 10:5)

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Psa. 40:12• ¹²For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me. (Psa. 40:12)

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Gal. 3:10• ¹⁰For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. (Gal. 3:10)

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James 2:10‑11• ¹⁰For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
¹¹For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law. (James 2:10‑11)

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Rom. 7:21‑23• ²¹I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
²²For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
²³But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. (Rom. 7:21‑23)

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Rom. 8:7• ⁷Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. (Rom. 8:7)

and I died.

Rom. 7:4,6• ⁴Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.
⁶But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter. (Rom. 7:4,6)

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Rom. 7:11• ¹¹For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. (Rom. 7:11)

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Rom. 3:20• ²⁰Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:20)

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Gal. 2:19• ¹⁹For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. (Gal. 2:19)

• Without the law, sin did not thus agitate a will which refused submission to that which checked it. For a barrier to the will awakens and excites the will. (“Romans 7” by J.N. Darby)

• "For I was alive without the law once." That is, in the state of being "sin dead," he was alive to life here on earth under the dictates of sin, but quite unconscious of its power and bondage. (“A Parenthesis: Romans 7:7-25” by B. Anstey)

• "But when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." When the authoritative voice of God in the Law came home to his quickened soul, it stirred sin into action—"sin revived." (“A Parenthesis: Romans 7:7-25” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But *I* was alive without law once; but the commandment having come, sin revived, but *I* died.

W. Kelly Translation

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But I was alive apart from law once; but, the commandment having come, sin revived and I died,